Pierre-Denis Plumier
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Pierre-Denis Plumier (4 March 1688 – 24 February 1721) was a Flemish sculptor.


Biography

Plumier was born in
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in 1688, the son of Franciscus Puymier and Anna Schobbens. In 1699 he was apprenticed to the sculptor Louis Willemsen in Antwerp. Between 1700 and 1713 he lived first in
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, where in 1708 he was awarded the first prize of the ''Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture'', and then in
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. In 1713 he returned to
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, where his first commission was a portrait bust of Goswin de Wynants. In the same year he made two marble works for the Marquis de Mérode-Westerlo for the castle of
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in the province of Hainaut: ''Enlèvement de Proserpine'' and ''Enlèvement des Sabines''. Both works are now in the Egmont Palace of Brussels. Plumier's work is considered part of the Brussels School. Two well-known pupils of his were
Laurent Delvaux Laurent Delvaux (1696, in Ghent – 24 February 1778, in Nivelles) was a Flemish sculptor. After a successful international career that brought him to London and Rome, he returned to the Austrian Netherlands where he was a sculptor to the cou ...
and Theodoor Verhaegen. In 1721 Plumier, followed by Delvaux, went to London where he died a short time later, at the age of 33. He acquired a commission for a funerary monument in
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for John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham on which he collaborated with his pupil Delvaux and
Peter Scheemakers Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (10 January 1691 – 12 September 1781) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. His public and church sculptures in a classicism, classici ...
. Plumier is buried in the cemetery of the London borough of
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.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Plumier, Pierre-Denis 1688 births 1721 deaths 17th-century Flemish sculptors 18th-century Flemish sculptors Artists from Antwerp Belgian expatriates in England